A rare small anhua wine cup - Wanli six-character mark and of the period
The white-glazed cup entirely unadorned except for a design impressed in shallow relief on the interior wall of the cup, depicting two coiling dragons of typical late Ming style striding in mutual pursuit of small flaming pearls. 6 cm (2¼in) diam. - Sold for £8,500 plus Premium and tax
Footnote: For a similar example with less evident decoration and dated to the Jiajing period, see Shimmering Colours, Monochromes of the Yuan to Qing Periods. The... [Lire la suite]

A blue and white kendi - Wanli
Finely painted around the slightly flattened globular body with a band of lotus flowers scroll, above a stylised band of ruyi clouds, the base and top of the neck mounted with a metal collar (restored).19cm (7½in) high. Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000 - Unsold.
Provenance: The Bloxham CollectionNote: A similar blue and white kendi in the Ardebil Shrine collection is illustrated by John Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, Washington, 1956, pl.69. The Bloxam family collection... [Lire la suite]

A rare documentary inscribed blue and white incense burner - Dated equivalent to AD1597 and of the period
Heavily potted with rounded sides and waisted neck below a straight-sided mouth rim, the exterior finely painted in rich tones of cobalt blue depicting the Guardian King and other figures in a rocky garden, a raised band in the centre of the neck inscribed: 'Dedicated by the Buddhist disciple Huang Hui-san when he was sixty-one years old in the Spring of the twenty-fifth year of the Wanli period of the Great Ming... [Lire la suite]

A yellow-glazed saucer-dish - Zhengde six-character mark and of the period
Potted with a crisp flaring rim, standing on an in-sloping foot, all under a pale mustard-yellow glaze, the inside of the foot reserved white (interior glaze worn, tiny rim frit). 21cm (8¼in) diam. - Sold for £5,500 plus Premium and tax
Footnote: A smaller yellow-glazed dish from the Zhengde reign from the Cunliffe Collection sold in these rooms, 11 November 2002, lot 76.
Bonhams. Fine Asian Art, 6 Nov 2006. New Bond Street